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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
Carol B. Stack
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Description for All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
Paperback. "This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm" Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFSL3; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the community used by anthropologists -- through authority figures and community leaders -- she approached the families herself by way of an acquaintance from school, becoming one of the first sociologists to explore the black kinship network from the inside. The result was a landmark study that debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. On ... Read more
All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the community used by anthropologists -- through authority figures and community leaders -- she approached the families herself by way of an acquaintance from school, becoming one of the first sociologists to explore the black kinship network from the inside. The result was a landmark study that debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. On ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780061319822
SKU
V9780061319822
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